The mathematican's apprentice

@mathapprentice.bsky.social

Associate professor of mathematics at the University of Padua. French. I study vibes

I like how the whole "Mystique abandons Kurt" plot could have been done lovingly like Moses among the reeds but no, she just looks vaguely disgusted and hurls him down a waterfall.

Two images of Mystique and Nightcrawler from X-men '97 where Mystique looks vaguely disgusted with her new baby

i think the wilson–nolan stuff was so explosive because nolan-heads are susceptible to the delusion that his stuff is much more highbrow than it really is, and bluesky heads are susceptible to the delusion that they are the number one homework do-ers, and wilson threatened both myths simultaneously

One of my Crank Theories of Everything is that the kind of work that survives and becomes part of the canon are stories that feature internal contradictions, because that means they have a rich text that can resonate with people in radically different circumstances and contexts.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · last wk.

and even the Iliad itself both celebrates and deplores violence and suggests an empathic understanding of the fate of the losers of war, including the women. the lament of captive women is a repeat theme in later Greek drama.

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

The legendary "walking bed" page from Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" was published on July 26, 1908. If there’s a Mt. Rushmore for Sunday pages, this one is certainly on it.

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Going to become a tech billionaire just so I can name things after the non-sinister parts of Lord of the Rings. Please make hotel reservations through my new hospitality management software, Butterburr.

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